NEWSLETTER

NEWSLETTER

Tenby Schools, Setia Eco Park

From Jane Kuok (Principal/Head of Primary, TIS), Lee Mei Leng (Principal, SST) & Giles Mongare (Vice Principal/Head of Secondary, TIS)

Issue # 175

14.06.2013

Whole School Photography Week starting 01.07.13 The photography club have organised a line up of events and activities for this year’s photography week.

4. Photography Trip to Cameron Highlands 05.07.13 (14:30hrs) – 07.07.13 (18:30hrs) This is our second trip to Cameron Highlands. We shall bring back some amazing photos from this experience. 5. Photo booth on 09.07.13 – A photo booth will be available during lunch breaks in the Foyer. Cost: RM5.00 per session, including one free 5R photo.

1. FACETS 2013 – This Photograph exhibition will be in the foyer for two weeks until 14.07.13. 2. Personal Best Photo Competition – Open to all students and staff. Submit one photo (jpeg format) entry via email to [email protected] along with full name, class of student and caption. There are 3 categories primary, secondary and adult. Shortlisted photos will be commented and judged by professional photographers. Closing date is 21.06.13. Prizes will be given to winners in each category. 3. Photo Hunt at Setia City Mall on 01.07.13 (14:40hrs – 19:30hrs) – Current CCA students and selected qualified event photographers will be ‘going on the hunt’. The winning team will win themselves a free dinner. Teacher volunteers from Early Years, Primary and Secondary from both schools will be participating as well. After dinner we will have a night photography session at the colourful fountain before returning.

6. Photography Talk on 10.07.13 (14.45hrs – 18.30hrs) @ Library– Three professional photographers - The Ninja Photographer Zung of The Photoz, The Commercial Photographer - Joe Chan and The Master of Light Painting – Patrick Low of ExesStudio. will be coming to Tenby to share their photography tips with us. Some refreshments will be provided. Limited seats are available and entry is free of charge. This is open to students (Year 5 and Standard 5 onwards), parents and staff. One student may bring one parent only. Register now via email to [email protected] by 25.06.13. Please specify the name and class of the student attending.

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International Day 9th July Already many parents are heavily involved with the classroom decoration for International Day and thank you for helping out. We welcome volunteers to set up a food stall for the servery area. We are requesting that this be done on a donation/cover costs only basis as we do not want the students handling too much money on the day. We are also looking for demonstrations of international cultures, maybe some samba or salsa! Also, anyone who would like to run a games stall based on international games would be most welcome. We will be holding a ‘fashion show’ of national costumes on the day. If you would like to be involved in this way then please contact your son/daughter’s class teacher or Mr. Robinson ([email protected]).

Ice Hockey Jasraj 4B participated in the Malaysian Ice Hockey League Division 3 held at Sunway Pyramid on Saturday 8th June. His team, Metrostars managed to get into the final and emerged Runners-Up. For his outstanding performance, he was awarded Most Promising Player of the league. We look forward to hear more good news from him.

1000 Species Garden This week’s plant species are featured below:

Scientific name: Dieffenbachia ‘Galaxy’ Common name: None

Scientific name:Pedilanthus tithymaloides (L.) Poit Common name: Redbird flower

T-Ball The children played well for their first outing. They showed great agility and some amazing batting skills in each game. The U11s had some tough competition from well-seasoned players and managed to fight their way through to a bronze. The U9s played a fantastic game in the second round and managed to secure 4th place. We would like to thank parents for travelling quite a distance to support us at Nexus and Desa Parkcity and for their patience while waiting for us to return. Last but not least , thank you to Ms. Jasmin and Mr. Kenny for their time and effort.

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Sekolah Sri Tenby (SST) Fun with English! Do you wear suspenders? The Wordy Tales of Eh Poh Nim are two of many books written by Lydia Teh. Her books have been written in a very creative way and can be used as a tool in English Language learning, especially from secondary onwards. On Tuesday 11th June, all Form 1 students attended an interesting talk by Lydia Teh from 13:10hrs - 14:10hrs in the Drama Room. A variety of interesting activities were conducted. Students showed interest and had fun participating. Lydia along with her book illustrator, Diana presented a sketch on one of the stories from her book. Students enjoyed watching. Later on, a short quiz was conducted based on the sketch presented. Students raced in answering the questions. The next activity was on the testing of students’ vocabulary. Individually, students came up with as many words as possible from ‘EH POH NIM’. Students were given 1 minute for this challenge. Li Yan (F1S) found 16 words and was awarded with a copy of ‘Eh Poh Nim’ book. Finally, six students volunteered for the final activity. Students constructed a sentence each so that a story could be formed. Lydia started a sentence and it was continued by the students. Lydia’s books were on sale at The Arena of Knowledge. The first 5 buyers received a complimentary sketch of themselves.

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Andrew Matthews’ Session @ Tenby Schools’ Library for Form 1 & 2

Andrew Matthews is an international speaker, motivator, a writer and an artist with books including "Happiness Now", "Follow Your Heart", "Being Happy!", "Making Friends", and "Being a Happy Teenager" now published in 38 different languages worldwide. He came to give a talk to our Form 1 and Form 2 students on Monday 10th June from 13:10hrs 14:10hrs. Some of the topics he shared were:  taking responsibility  responding to problems  the ‘frog’ principle  the ‘elephant’ principle  developing confidence  importance of attitude

2013 Excellence Programmes On Monday 3rd June, Form 5 Science students were given a 2 hour session on examination answering techniques for Papers 2 & 3 and highlights of important Physics topics under the Excellence Programme. This session was conducted by an examiner cum excellent Physics teacher from Petaling Jaya. At the same time, all Form 4M & Form 5M students were given a similar session on General Science by another examiner, writer and excellent Science teacher. On Tuesday 4th June, another English Specialist teacher from Kuala Lumpur was invited to touch on examination answering techniques for PMR English from 09:00hrs -11:00hrs followed by a similar session for SPM English from 11:30hrs 13:30hrs.The students actively answered and asked questions on a wide range of focus areas. During this period, Moral teachers were also exposed to the latest marking criteria for SPM Moral structured and essay questions, definition of values and key words and academic issues for each value. The students’ Moral Excellence Programme will be held in July.

Andrew used illustrations also in his presentation which all students and teachers enjoyed. They will be on display in the Library soon for everyone to see.

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Tenby International School (TIS) Parental Support: IPC Personal Goal Foci We will be focusing on the IPC Personal Goal ‘Adaptability’ until Friday 05.07.13. Here is a reminder to parents on how they can help their children understand ‘adaptability’. Adaptability is… Being respectful of people’s differences and changing our behaviour to suit different situations. • • • • • • •

Know about a range of views, cultures and traditions Be able to consider and respect the views, cultures and traditions of other people Be able to cope with unfamiliar situations Be able to approach tasks with confidence Be able to suggest and explore new roles, ideas, and strategies Be able to move between conventional and more fluid forms of thinking Be able to be at ease with themselves in a variety of situations

Secondary Information Morning – ‘Review of the Current Year & Looking Forward’ This is scheduled for Thursday 27.6.13 from 08:30hrs – 10:00hrs in the Auditorium. This will be the final one for the year. The students are looking forward to presenting to you and we hope that as many parents as possible will be able to attend. Please confirm your attendance with Ms. Darshini ([email protected]) before Friday 21.6.13. See you there! Tissue Boxes Needed 1N need lots of empty tissue boxes in preparation for International Day. Please pass empty tissue boxes to the Principal’s Office by the end of June.

Reminder: Classes in September for Primary It is school policy to split primary classes each academic year. The reason for this is to enable students to rehearse and practice social skills within a new setting each year and allow them to get to know more students within their year group. This is a long and very careful process that the teachers will begin. When creating the new classes, the students will be able to choose at least one friend to be in the new class with. In addition, teachers will take various factors into consideration to ensure that each class has a balance of ability, gender, nationality, houses, behavioural and learning needs. We will do our best to provide students with exposure to a range of expatriate and local teachers.

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Year 4 Exit Point – Young and Old On Thursday Year 4 were more than happy to come into school. Why? Well, we spent the morning playing with ‘old fashioned’ toys – and all in the name of education! Finding out about what people used to play with in past times, how these games were played and what they helped to develop (thinking strategies/working out angles/balancing skills). It all made for a great morning. Parents came into school and we were shown how to play games that they and grandparents used to play. Everyone took turns to try out these games – with not an iPad in sight! One of the highlights was definitely the kite flying that took place on the field! The morning led the children to think about what is available to them now – things that don’t cost much (if anything), that can help us develop parts of our brain and body and that are just good fun! And many of us realised that we don’t want to let these games disappear. Thanks again to the parents who gave up their time to help us – a great time was had by all!

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MALAY YEAR 7: Learning, Cooking and The Best of All… Eating!!! Explore cooking with Malay? Is that possible? Initial questions that ran through our minds. We played along, we all love to eat anyway but amazingly learning Malay has never been more fun!!! We look forward to more cooking lesson ala Masterchef Tenby… Ms. Nurul!!! A mind-filling, fulfilling lesson that not only increased our language ability but also tantalized our tongues and filled our tummy!!!

From the Art Department

Tenby’s first major Art Exhibition of IGCSE work was very well attended by parents, students and staff alike. Many thanks to the Parents’ Association for providing food, refreshments and giving up their time. Miss Anna and the Music students provided a beautiful backdrop of live music throughout the evening. The prefects made up a reception committee and the Year 11 Art students produced a body of high quality, varied, personal art and design works. Many thanks also to Miss Lisa Chan for mounting the displays and doing much more to support the students behind the scenes. It was a real team effort.

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